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Four Carnegie Mellon Individuals and Three Doubles Advance to ITA Round of 16

Four Carnegie Mellon Individuals and Three Doubles Advance to ITA Round of 16
Posted: Sep 27, 2014

From Carnegie Mellon University Athletics

 Four Carnegie Mellon University men's tennis singles players and three doubles teams advanced to the round of 16 at the USTA-ITA Southeast Regional on Saturday, September 27 at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. Play will continue on Sunday, September 28 at 8:00 a.m.

Winning twice for the Tartans on Saturday was senior Will Duncan (Newbury Park, Calif./Newbury Park), junior Abhishek Alla (Hyderabad, India/IMG Pendleton School) and sophomores Kunal Wadwani (Saratoga, Calif./Ballarmine College Prep) and Kenny Zheng (Pennington, N.J./Hopewell Valley Central), all of whom are seeded in the tournament.

Duncan started the day defeating Chris Hu of Washington and Lee University 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 before topping Johns Hopkins University's Emerson Walsh 6-1, 6-0. Alla opened with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Max Oberholtzer of Ursinus College and then led 4-0 in the first set against Mohammed Ammouni of Penn State Abington before Ammouni retired due to injury.

Wadwani picked up his round of 64 win over Steven Baker of Shenandoah University 6-1, 6-0 and then defeated Eric Hurwitz of Mary Washington 7-6 (7-4), 6-0. Zheng was a winner over John Larkin of Swarthmore College 6-2, 6-1 and Eric Spangler of Salisbury University 7-4, 7-6 (7-4).

In doubles play, Duncan paired with sophomore Jack Kasbeer (Lake Forest, Ill./Deerfield) and received a bye in the round of 64 and defeated Caleb Kramer and Oberholtzer 8-1 to advance to the round of 16. Also receiving a bye in the round of 64 was senior Bryce Beisswanger (Los Angeles, Calif./Viewpoint School) and junior Yuvraj Kumar (New Delhi, India/Millfield School) who won their first match in the round of 32, 8-1 over Ryan Holtschneider and Vishnu Rajes of Washington College.

The final doubles team to advance to the round of 16 was Wadwani with freshman Andrew Pratt (Saratoga, Calif./Saint Francis). The pair won twice, defeating Ryan Byrd and Connor Hoerr of Randolph-Macon College 8-4 and Ian Goodwille and Matt Muoio of Albright College 8-6.

Playing singles in the Blue 1 Draw was freshman Connor O'Kelly (Lake Forest, Ill./Lake Forest). The first year Tartan defeated Steven Kaplan of Dickinson College 6-4, 6-1 and Tyler Arsenault of Ursinus 6-0, 6-2 to advance to the semifinals to be played on Sunday.